stadiometer

/ ˌsteɪdɪˈɒmɪtə /

noun

1. an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them

Word History and Origins

Origin of stadiometer¹

C19: from stadio- , from stadium + -meter

Example Sentences

To do the actual measurements, we rented a Michelson-Fabry-Pérot laser interferometric stadiometer from CERN, a device capable of measuring the littleness of each little woman in each Little Women to subatomic accuracy.

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All it took was one cold shaddak! of the stadiometer, one metallic tap to the top of my head, for a nurse practitioner to bring me crashing down to earth.

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